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(No ModeL) E. B. STIMPSON.

DRESS STAY.

No. 431,219. Patented July 1, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWVIN B. STIMPSON, OF BROO KLYN, ASSIGNOR TO HEIHAN, LU DWIG 86 CO., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,219, dated July 1, 1890.

Application filed January 6 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN B. STIMPsoN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Dress-Stays, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement is applicable to dressstays such as are employed upon the inner side of dress-waists to strengthen and sustain the samev I will describe in detail a dress stay embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of a dress-stay embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a rearview of the same, showing a certain backing-piece as partially removed. Fig. 3 is a face view showing a slight modification. Fig. 4 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the improvement, illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the improvement illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my improvement, I take a strip of metal, whalebone, or other resilient material A, with which I combine a facing piece B. The said facing-piece I fold over the edges of the strip A, so that the edges of the fold will substantially meet, as shown more clearly in Fig. 4, upon the inner side of the strip.

In the examples of my improvement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 I apply a sheet or film of rubber Z), or other adhesive material, upon the rear side of the facing-piece, and secure the same thereto bypressure. Over the rubber or other adhesive material I), I lay a strip of textile material C, which textile material is secured upon the sheet or film I), also by pressure.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a portion of the strip of material C, constituting a backing piece, and the sheet or film b as both torn away from the rubber or other adhesive ma-' serial No. 336,006. (No model.)

terial Z), in order to illustrate how the two are secured together. In this figureI have also shown a metal tip d, clasped upon the end of said strip A. the strip A within the facing-piece B.

In the example of my invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4: the backing-piece O is omitted; but in order to permanently secure the facing-piece B about the strip A, I employ clips resilience of the strip A permits the same to bend in various directions in order when in use to accommodate itself to the movements of the body.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a resilient strip, of a facing-piece wrapped about the opposite edges of said strip, and meeting intermediate of the edges of said strip, the free ends of said facing-piece being folded back upon the piece in opposite directions and extended outwardly beyond the edges of the resilient strip, and means for securing the facing-strip to the resilient strip, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a resilient strip,

of a facing-piece extending about the edges of said strip upon both sides of said strip and beyond the edges thereof, a layer or film of rubber or adhesive material secured upon the rear side of said facing-piece, and a baeking-piece secured upon the outer side of said adhesive material, substantially as specified.

EDWIN B. STIMPSON. Vitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, D. H. HAYWOOD.

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